Urban studies and planning employer opportunities
Our courses are designed with students’ careers in mind. We aim to equip them with a wide range of transferable and specialist skills as well as academic knowledge making our students desirable employees.
What are the benefits of engaging with University?
For you:
- Engaging with the school through events, presentations, sponsorships, videos and placements, will raise your organisational profile with Sheffield students.
- By offering placements, you will gain a highly educated student with the ability to deliver high quality work and assist on projects.
For students:
- Students get an insight into what career options are available to them upon graduating.
- Through the experience you will give them, students will have a head-start in improving their employability, ready for the world of work.
How can I get involved?
There are a variety of ways to get involved with the department. These include:
- offering our MPlan Urban Studies and Planning students short two-week placements in the summer or Easter break.
- offering our students a 'year in industry' placement.
- delivering career presentations to urban studies and planning students (usually held in October/November).
- inviting students to assist with projects you otherwise wouldn't have the funding and/or capacity for.
- allowing office visits or virtual tours.
We are always more than happy to work together and accommodate new events and partnerships.
What makes Sheffield students stand out?
Urban studies and planning at Sheffield is the the top RTPI-accredited planning school in the UK (Source: REF 2014 (Research excellence Framework) and National Student Survey 2016).
Our students are taught by the leading academics. In the benchmark Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise, 85% of our work was rated 'world leading' and 'internationally excellent' with 'outstanding impacts' – the highest of any RTPI-accredited planning school in the country.
We were all very impressed with Chloe during her placement with us. She was keen, interested in the range of activities we organised, and fit well in to the team for the short time she was here. Her placement included contributing to several pieces of work which she completed very well.
I was particularly impressed with how Chloe worked around some technical issues we had at the start of the placement; she used initiative to get on and complete the work with minimal input required from others.
Feedback from an employer regarding one of our placement students
